Legacy of Lundaya: Memory of an Empire

by NexusBinds

Rating: everyone
Tags: Anthro, Adventure
Length: 9310

Mozhet solntse napravlyat' nas , i mozhet zashchitit' nas luna. Words once speaken by heros, now chanted by conquerers.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-05-07 16:40:37 UTC

Prologue: Time Line

0 bh (Before Harmony) The Mass exodus of the pony homeland for Equestria.

235 bcl (Before Celestia and Luna) The remaining ponies in the homeland (mainly unicorn and Earth Pony) form Fort Solstice in the mountains.

223 bcl New magic is created to grow crops in the harsh snow and ice and the (All Earth Pony) Knight Familiar is formed to protect the fort from any threats. The Population adapts to hunting and eating meat making the more physically fit the most ponies.

207 bcl Fort Solstice becomes the city of solstice.

194 bcl Solstice populations reach over 23,000 (all Unicorns and Earth Pony).

190 bcl The Knight Familiar creates and new a fighting style, “kamennyye ruki” meaning stone hands and forms a military of 2,000 Unicorn mages and 4,000 Familiar Foot soldiers to combat the dragon horde.

189 bcl The Massacre of Ethana (A major Dragon village near Solstice) and the start of the Dragon Solstice Wars.

179 bcl The Dogovor Temnogo Kin or Treaty of the Dark Kin is signed ending the war and the first Shadric super soldier is created.

160 bcl Solstice dominates the entire pony homeland with the aid from there Dragon allies, The Knight Familiar, and there new Shadric (Dark-Kin) Unicorn Legion.

155 bcl Traders from Villages in Equestria began to make annual trips to the Empire of solstice to trade.

100 bcl Huge deposits of Silver and gold are discovered in the Solstianen Mountains and they became Solstice's made source of trade.

15 bcl "The Great Divide" seismic activities underground causes Equestria to break off from Solstice destroying many Equestrian villages and Solstianen cities.

160-0 bcl The Age of Peace.

310 bn (Before Nightmare) Celestia and Luna are crowned and the Solsticainen Empire (what used to be the Pony Homeland) re-names there capital Lundaya in honor of Princess Luna and began to assist in uniting the Kingdom of Equestria.

300 bn Solstainen Shadric Unicorn Legionaries become Luna's personal guard. While the Knight Familiar become Celestia’s together they keep the peace in the new developing country of Equestria.

220 The discovery of steam power and the building of huge steel and iron war ships by Solstice and Equestria catch the attention of The Griffin Kingdoms who previously ignored the Pony nation assuming they won't pose much of a threat. Now they were close to having the strongest navy in the world.

210 bn The Griffin kingdoms declare war on all Pony nations (Zebrabwa, Equestria, Solstice, and Nighpon.) and send a fleet to invade Equestria where instead of being met with the Equestrian armies on the beach, they were met with a Solstainen Naval fleet off the coast. They never reached the beach.

203 bn the small country of Zebrabwa is conquered by Griffin forces then just as quickly liberated by Nighponese and Equestrian forces.

204 bn Solstice focuses on sweeping through the islands around the Griffin homeland.

205 bn The combined strength of the Equestrian and Solstainen Navies prove too much for the defending Griffins and lose control of their Ports and beaches.

200 bn A battered and devastated Griffin kingdom surrenders unconditionally. The Familiars becomes famous for their swordsmanship and their shields which they tend to use them as a 2nd weapon. And there intimidating Iron warships, demonstrating their mastery of the forge. They show the world that not only are they a deadly fighting force but also the follow the code of Chivalry to the letter, becoming a symbol of freedom for Zebra and pony slave taken during the Griffin advance.

134 bn The Discord crisis. This was The Shadric’s time to shine, but instead of leaving a positive mark on the world they become infamous for their mastery of the dark arts, Stealth, their brutality, their complete disregard for collateral damage, and their “Victory at any cost” mentality, the Familiar take note of their unwavering loyalty to Princess Luna. But like The familiar they show that they are organized and an extremely deadly fighting force.

127 bn The attempted libration of the Crystal Empire. Both the Shadric and Familiars were on display here and show they are even more deadly together then they are separate. But their failure to save the city shows that though they are a force to be reckoned with, they are not invincible.

21 bn The Shadric unicorn Legion and Knight Familiar has a very strong presence in Equestia.

10 bn Luna gives a speech were (Unintentionally) she boasts about "her" Empire calling them the "Guardians of Harmony".

0 bn The attempted Coup of Princess Celestia Led by Nightmare Moon and her Shadric Unicorn Legionaries and even through it was the Familiar’s duty to take out Celestia right then and there, they betrayed Nightmare Moon and Solstice and defended the Castle rather than seize it.

1 an (After Nightmare) The Great War Begins with Equestria (aided by the Knight Familiar), The Griffin Kingdom, and The Mule Republic declaring war on Solstice and its allies (Zebrabwa and Neighpon).

30 an Zebrabwa is conquered by Familiar Knights lead by 3 of the 6 Pack Leaders.

47 an A devastated Mule Republic Surrenders to Solstice.

50 an Using newly developed cloud walker spells and war balloons, Shadric forces evade and take Cloudsdale.

52 an The Neighponese Shogun stays loyal to Solstice until his assassination (by who, no one knows) causing Neighpon to surrender leaving Solstice with no allies. Solstice continues its march across Equestria despite it having to defend its own borders at the same time.

63 an The battle of Manehatten were the Solsticainen Army (55,000 strong) is halted and defeated by the remaining Equestian forces (43,000) lead by a former Solsticainen General Sigillum Ex Infernum who commanded Familiar forces during the failed coup.

65 an Infernum began training Equestrian unicorn guard in the "old way." (Solstian unicorn fighting style before the Shadric, before the darkness)

70 an the new "Infernum’s Rangers" of Equestria and civilian militia push the Shadric from Equestria entirely.

80 an The Shadric controlled Solstainen government began Killing and enslaving earth ponies within their borders, burn the Familiar hub city of Roam to the ground and execute the Familiar Dominus (Leader) and his Thanes.

81 an A rage fueled Familiar march across Solstainen in a "sea of blood" burning down every city in the path killing millions of Solstainen unicorn civilians in the process.

101 an The Combined might of the Griffins and Equestrians drive the Solstainens to their capital Lundaya.

102 an The Fall of Lundaya, it was the largest gathering of Familiar forces ever. (934,000) All Familiar Pack Leaders were present and the New Familiar Dominus Titanus Cor-Lupus the leader of the head pack (The Cor Lupus) and possibly the most controversial Dominus in the history of the Familiar.

103 an Dark Magic is used to raise Miles and Miles of mountains closing off all access to Lundaya blocking all access in or out of Lundaya and trapping 3/4th of Familiar forces. None of them made it out.

110 an Most records of Shadric magic are destroyed and All Solstianen artifacts began to disappear one by one (such as the Alicorn Amulet) and Knight Familiar begins to break apart, some returning to the "Motherland" (Solstice) some staying in Equestria some going abroad forming forts and strong holds where they live, work, and hunt in the reservation around them and still adhere to the laws of “the old way” The Cor-Lupus began rebuilding Roam.

220 an The Griffin Kingdom occupies most of Solstice and the rest is broken up into separate countries such as Prance, Germareny, Swisherland, Bittan, and more. Lundaya still being around becomes urban legend. The mountains of Solstice remain uncharted. Infernum’s Rangers (who adopted gray fur dye so they all look the same) become Celestia's personal defenders and Equestria rally's on itself for its defense.

230 an The Cor-Lupus goes silent, no longer keeping order in the smaller packs.

1006 an Our story begins.

Chapter one: Rude awakening

Sigil woke up and was greeted with the cold hardness of a wooden table. By the small pool of droll he figured he'd been out for a while. He attempted to rub his head but found that his hands were chained to the table. The ash grey coated Unicorn tugged on them for a couple seconds then gave up, being imprisoned here left him weak, he believes it's been a few months...or was it years? He honestly didn't know his cell had no windows; they never let him go outside, there was no way to tell time, not to mention the psycho interrogator that uses him as a aggression release every few..... Every once in awhile.

As if on que a black and blue Griffin in unmarked steel armor walked holding a small box. "Speak of the devil." Sigil said to himself. "Gutentag!" She said in a sickly cheery voice. Sigil just sat there looking at the box as she walked on and set it on the table with a bang. "So how have you been Sig?" Sigil looked her in the eyes, and said nothing.

"Oh zon't be so cold Sigy. I told you we'd meet again" "what do you want..." "Oh a lot of zings, a house on ze river, Money, a Husband, but at ze moment I want ze hear you

scream and unlike last time I'm not bound by rules" "Would you mind repeating that? I couldn't hear you over all the bullshit." Sigil said with a cocky smirk. "Hm, cute." She got a spoon from the bag. "And zis time I brought the rest my toys to play with!" "A spoon? What are you going to do, feed me?" she snapped her fingers and a small flame appeared on her thumb which she held under the spoon. "What you zought you ponies were the only ones who can use ze magic?" She walked over to him and ran a claw down the side of his face. "You have pretty eyes...I Zink I'll take zose first." Sigil sat there with an unreadable expression on his face. "What no insults, no jokes, no puns?" "I have jokes for shocking, burning, hell even water boarding....but the gouging of one’s eye is not in my arsenal of snappy come backs....." She snickered at this. "Let's get started shall we Sigil?" She whispered as the glowing hot spoon neared his eye.

"Captain!" A guard shouted from the door "we have a problem." A bit of fear could be heard in his voice. "Agh Fine." The captain said in a disappointed tone. Sigil let out a huge sigh of relief. "Zon't go anywhere Sigy~" The Griffin Captain said seductively. Sigil just raised his chained hands and flipped her the bird.  After waking up for a second time on the hard table and an hour if staring at the walls Sigil's patience began to wear thin. "Where’s that bloody Griffin gone to?" He thought as he sat back into the seat. "Yeaaa bored now."

As he said this another click could be hear from the chains, then a chink, the clattering as they fell to the floor. Griffin's best strength draws attention away from their greatest weakness, oversight. Steel chains, Titanium chaffs, magic proof enchantment, weak iron bolt holding it to the table. Sigil stood near the door, readying himself to take out any guard on the other side. He had attempted to escape in the past unsuccessfully in the past and didn't expect to get anywhere this time but hey, better than waiting here to die. But when he bailed out the room and reached for the guard that he thought was going to be there, he was instead meet with a huge smoking hole in the wall.

Chapter two: Bipolar Luck

"Uh....Did I...miss something?" The ash grey coated, dry grey manned Stallion asked out loud as he surveyed the mostly destroyed camp. He looked up at the shining sun and winced a bit as the light assaulted his eyes and hide, being in the dark for so long The silence was broken by the battered guard tower above him giving way, crashing and making a path for him to get to the ground. "Well that was....convenient." Sigil said looking up half hoping to see somepony up there. As excepted he saw nopony. "Mhe" He used the ruble to climb down to the stable ground and looked around. "Armory armory armory." He repeated to himself as he looked through the empty camp. Many of the fires had already burned themselves out a while ago. "Armory armory, AH HA!" He exclaimed seeing the sign above the door. Unfortunately whatever was inside has long sense been raided now it was just an empty room. "Of course..." Sigil said with a sigh. He continued to look about the ruble. “Is everyone gone?” His inner questioning was interrupted by the rustle of debris being shift through. Sigil ducked behind what was left of a building. “Find a shinny pick it up, all the day you have good luck” A grapy sickly voice sang as he looked through the ash and wood. Sigil peeked around the corner, he saw a short brown hairless creature, the only piece of clothing he had was and ragged tunic and he was holding an equally ragged and rigged club. “Goblins....” He said starting to back up, but when he turned around to tried to make his exit. “Looky looky we found a pony” A repulsive smelling Goblin said smiling with his Rigged rotten teeth. “Oh goddess please close you dammed mouth!” Sigil said wrinkling his nose in disgust. “Oh Feisty, good I like spicy food.” “Spicy.....food?” Sigil said raising an eyebrow. “Aye.”  The creature’s half rotted wandering eyes betrayed him as Sigil followed them up just as his Goblin comrade attempted to descend down upon him. Sigil grabbed his club with one hand, slamming the creature down on the ground then he pulled the goblin's arm up with his hands and stumped down with his hoof breaking its neck. As the goblin went limp the leader called out to his brethren, and instead of waiting for them to show up Sigil bolted into what was left of the fort dungeons. 5 Goblins chased after him intent to kill. They ran through the entrains hall and to a large room. The 4 Goblins looked around. "Oh come now. I'm not that fast." Sigil's voice echoed through the dark room. "Show yourself!" One of the yelled. "Hey up here!" Sigil shouted from on a higher floor platform before walking back into the darkness. "RAH" The chief Goblin howled and the 3 Goblins charged through the stairwell. The chief stopped and looked around. "FAN OUT AND FIND HIM!" His order was met with a long empty silence. "I SAID FAN....out...."  Turning around he discovered he was talking to no one for all that was behind him was quite empty darkness that was broken by a chuckle. "What's wrong? Afraid of the dark?"

Chapter Four: Return

Celestia after lowering the sun was sitting at her mirror preparing for bed. She was humming a tone she picked up from being around Pinkie Pie when she saw her patio door open and she sensed a presence, but she didn't see anypony in her mirror. She began to hear hoof steps and see impressions in the carpet, but still no pony. The Princess of the sun was frozen, not in fear but disbelief.

"Sigil...."

"Your majesty."

She could hear him breathing, he was exhausted, she could feel his magical aura, he was weak, she could hear the tone of his voice, he was alive.

"Otchety skazal, chto vy byli mertvy ... "

"Ochevidno, oni byli ne pravy."

Celestia turned around and Sigil could see she was teary eyed.

"P-Princess I haven't been gone that long.....right?"

"Sigil you've been missing for 10 years...."

Sigil went quite for a few seconds

"Is that all?" He said with a mix of shock and sarcasm before hugging her tight.

Celestia hugged back like a sister would her brother. When she thought he was dead that was worse than banishing her sister for the simple fact that you can return from banishment so there was hope, but you can't return from death. She combed her hand through his mane and noticed how dry it was, and then taking a second look at his face realized how pale he was.

"You're blood starved!"

"Is it that obvious?" he said with a weak smile.

"You didn't get rid of my room did you?"

"No...I never could bring myself to give the order."

"Great and where's Sunset she owes me a drink." Sigil said with a wide grin

. "Sigil..."

"Oh....she's dead isn't she....?”

"What?! no no no no, but I had to banish her. But Twilight helped her to make friends." She said with more than a bit of pride in her voice.

"....A book series helped her to make friends? Well suppose that's what fandoms are for." Sigil said with a shrug making the sun goddess giggle.

"No, Twilight Sparkle my newest student. I'll bring you up to speed tomorrow, for now you need to recover. Also, be desecrate, I'll make the announcement of your return in the morning. For now we wouldn't want to cause a panic. Most ponies aren't used to seeing a blood starved vampire."

Sigil gave a nod before his horn lit up with a black aura and began to disappear into a black and dark purple shadowy hole that appeared in the ground. Celestia shivered as she felt the strong dark energy resonating off of it.

“Forgot he could do that....”

Sigil rose from the ground in a pitch black room. He look from left to right before snapping his fingers, upon doing so 10 candles ignited with dark blue flames that immediately turned orange dimly lighting the room. Sigil smiled at the large painting of his dark red omega cutie mark decorating the floor.

“Sigillum Ex Infernum.”

Sigil looked up when he heard a voice say his full name. A black Raven was perched on a book case on the 2nd floor of the room.

“Corvus!” Sigil said with a wide grin.

The bird flew down, landed on his shoulders and rubbed its head against him.

“Welcome home master!” Corves said happily.

“By the goddess you look absolutely horrendous!” A regal and feminine voice said from the shadows.

“ZZ. Our master has returns after a Decade of being missing and the first thing you do is insult the way he looks?” Corves said with a glare. From the shadow walked out a black cat with slightly glowing green eyes.

“I’m only voicing my concerns I mean look at him! He’s Blood starved!” She said jabbing a paw in Sigil’s direction.

“Yes.... well now that you mention it he does look rather.....pale.”

“Yes yes rather pale HE’S GRAY!” ZZ shouted.

“Nice to see y-“Sigil started before being cut off.

“Ahp no talking, Bath, now!”

“Wait the tub is still here?”

“Well of course, what would we do with a millennium old magic blood?”  Corvus said with a smile as they walked to a closed off room in the back of the room.

Sigil look inside, smiled and closed the door behind him.

Chapter Five: Befriending Dioblous

Twilight and her friends looked at the aged wooden door. A plain looking door that seemed out of place to the elegant Majesty of the castle. But it was the feeling of the door. Even Apple Jack, the pony who was never really impressed nor intrigued by magic, could feel it. A dark, cold feeling that felt sickening, yet at the same time inviting.

"Well, you girls ready?"

The girls nodded except Spike who looked straight ahead determined to protect his friends if this went south. Twilight slowly opened the door and the first thing she noticed was the library. No bigger anyone she's seen, but it wasn't the size that caught her attention. It was what was in it. Books containing dark knowledge banned by Celestia decades ago. With eyes wide enough to match the grin on her face, she began to read some of the titles to herself.

"Magic of the Shadows, The Dark Elements, Controlling the Void, Immortal Blood. This is quiet the collection!" She said with glee.

"Uhh Twilight, sorry for ruining your nerdgasm, but..." Rainbow Dash said, putting a hand on her shoulder.

"Oh right. Hehe sorry," Twilight said, returning to the mission at hand.

"Hello? Anyone here?" Rarity Call out. Her call was just met with silence.

"Girls, come and see this," Fluttershy said looking into the closed off room in the back.

The rest of them came to see what had made Fluttershy so captivated and a gasp was all that could be heard as they took in the room’s appearance. Inside the floors, walls, and ceiling were made of solid, shiny marble. Carved into the ceiling were Medieval Gothic style art depicting of battles, and reflected off the walls as a different battle was shown. On the ceiling was an older version of the Castle of the Two Sisters under siege by dark colored ponies and a Stallion in black armor that looks like it was commanding the defense. One the wall on the right was a battle in a desert city that they didn't recognize. The same Stallion, now in Equestrian armor was leading the attack. On the left was a battle for a tundra fortress. But what was on the floor was a bit disturbing. The art on the floor depicted hills and hills of corpses. Both Equestrian and the dark colored ponies all leading to a pool filled with a red glowing liquid.

"I-is that....Blood?" Rarity said with a gulp. Pinkie's mane fell flat and the group heard hoof steps on the floor above.

"I wasn't expecting visitors, but you're welcomed nonetheless." A strong but smooth voice of a stallion said with sincerity.

The girls looked up and saw a Unicorn with a silk-like black coat and snow white mane, his red wine colored eyes glowing in the dim light. He was wearing white suit pants and dress shoes but no shirt. On his cutie mark on his chest, was the same as the one on the black armored stallion from the wall and the huge symbol on the floor. The temperature in the room noticeably rose a few degrees as the girls' faces turned beat red and Pinkie's hair, Twilight's, Fluttershy's and Rainbow's wings pomfed up. Rainbow was the first to move ether forgetting or not caring about what she just saw, unzipping her jacket slightly and flying up to the second floor, sitting on the rail and crossing her legs and stretched out her hand and smiled seductively.

"I'm Rainbow Dash.~" She said with a smile.

"I'm Sigillum Ex Infernum, but please call me Sigil." Sigil said with a smile and he shook her hand.

"Holy crap!" Sigil shouted, before teleporting in front of Spike leaving Rainbow to fall off the Rail dazed by the sudden burst of light.

"You are a dragon!" Sigil announced with a grin as he picked up the small dragon.

"Yes, and you're freaking me out now put me down!" Spike said as he started to squirm.

"Oh, yea. Sorry," Sigil said, setting Spike down.

"You speak very well for a new born."

"New born?" Twilight said with a giggle as she put her hand on the young dragon’s head.

“Spike is 14 now.”

“Then why is he such a shrimp?”

“Hey don’t you dare insult Spikey Wikey like that!” Rarity said pointing a finger at Sigil.

“...Spikey…wi-? Never mind, anyway he’s past the age of exposure.” The group looked at Sigil as if he just spoke in a different language.

“The age of what now?” Apple Jack asked with a chuckle.

“Ah, now I understand. You’ve never even seen black flame before have you youngling?” The smiling dark stallion asked Spike, who was backing up at this point.

“W-what’s that?” Spike said as he looked back to see if he was any closer to the door.

“This...”

Sigil snapped his finger and Spike was engulfed in black fire. As he crossed him arms and awaited the fruits of his efforts he notice the shadows in the room change and swung his hand around fast enough to deflect the purple beam of destruction but his underestimated the power of it and while it didn’t hit the intended target of his head, it did knock him off his hooves and burn his hand. He fell on his back and looked up at an enraged purple alicorn.

“WHAT DID YOU DO?!” Twilight shouted behind tears as she charged another blast.

“ WAI-.”

But before Sigil could even get the answer to come out Twilight hit him with an even more powerful shot. Sigil brought his hand in front of him and the black limps erupted of it and created a shield blocking the beam. Once they broke apart Sigil found himself surround by 5 mares with the intent to kill. 6 more tentacles shot out from symbols on his back and the ones coming out of his hands came together the form 2 black blades.

"Will you just wait a goddess dammed second!"

“YOU KILLED SPIKE!!”

“Ah no I didn’t”

Fluttershy slowly walked over to where Spike was standing and saw something curled up in the smoke.

“WE JUST SAW YOU!”

“g-girls?”

“NO YOU SAW ME SET HIM ON FIRE!”

“Girls”

“YEA! THAT KILLS THING PONIES!”

Fluttershy moved from the lump as it let out a grunt and started to move.

"YES, THAT KILL PONIES, BUT HE’S A DRAGON! DO Y-“

“GIRLS!” Fluttershy screamed making everypony turn around as the figure still blurred by the smoke stood as tall as Sigil.

It stared at his with eyes that glowed brightly in the smoke. Sigil tilted his head with a smile but still not letting his guard down.

“Spike...you ok?" Sigil asked not taking an eye off Twilight and the others.

There was a moment of silence before the voice of the Dragon broke it.

"....You set me on fire...."

"Well at lease he can talk." Sigil mumbled to himself.

"How do you feel?"

  The was another moment of silence.

"...Cold, Heavy and...why are you guys staring at me?"

Sigil and the others stared at Spike dumfounded.

“Sp-Spike? Your…your…” Twilight started.

“RIPED!” Rainbow finished.

Spike, now standing eye level to Sigil, looked down at his new tall muscular form. Sigil, snapping out of the shock that his spell had actually worked, teleported a towel to cover his….Dragonhood. Previously in his young small form, it was hard to notice, but now in this new form it’s hard not to notice.

“Akh, bozhe moy boginya! Ok everypony not of the male gender please leave the room for a second so I can get the boy some cloths.” Sigil said covering a embarrassed Spike from view.

“But…you just…You tried…” Twilight stuttered over her words as her mind tried to process what just happened.

“Come on girls, let’s let these two fellas get themselves decent."

"Wait AJ you actually trust this guy?" Rainbow asked, still on her guard.

"Nope, but I'm givin em the benefit of the doubt, and if he harms one scale on Spike's head, Imma rip him a new one." Apple Jack said with a stare that could scare off a bear.

"Dually noted." Sigil said with a smile as she walked by.

Rarity helped Twilight, who was still contemplating the events the unfolded, to the door. As the door close Sigil looked at Spike and took a breath.

"They scare me."

"Yea they tend to do that to ponies that set their friends on fire...." Spike said crossing his arms.

"Yes well." Sigil said clearing his throat. “Uh how do you feel now?” Sigil said changing the subject.

“I’m not cold anymore, but I still feel heavy.”

“That’s your body adjusting to the muscle growth, it’ll fade.” Sigil said as he led Spike upstairs.

“So…the pool?” Spike said trying to make conversation.

“Pool? Oh you mean the blood spring.”

“Blood…”

“Celestia didn’t tell you what I am did she?” Sigil said with a smirk.

Spike shook his head in response. Sigil chuckled and looked back at him. “

My friend, you’re in the company of a Shadric Vampire.”

“……A what?” Spike said tilting his head.

“The..Shadric?” Sigil asked hoping to ring a bell.

Spike shrugged as if to say I got nothing making Sigil sigh hard.

“But I do know what a vampony is.”

“Vampire, not Vampony. Vanpony implies that only ponies can become them.” Sigil said matter-of-factly.

“Right.”

“That’s it? No shock?”

“I’ve gone up against a demonic shadow king, an evil shape-shifting bug queen, and the God of chaos. The existence of Vampires real isn’t really that hard to believe anymore.” Spike said with pride.

“Ya vizhu.” Sigil said as he opened his closet.

“What?”

“Oh never mind. So, take your pick.” Sigil stepped aside letting Spike look in.

It like the library was quite impressive in size. Not on Rarity standards, but impressive never the less.

"Don't you have anything that's not white or red?" Spike said looking through the closet. "Or that's not a suit?"

"Nope. I'm a Vampire, I have a reputation to keep."

Spike rolled his eyes and continued to look through the closet. In the very back of the small room was a glass case protecting a black suit of armor with a blood colored cape. The armor was decorated in the same gothic style engravings as the marble room downstairs, through it did not depict battles, instead the engravings were elaborate lines and symbols on the helmet, shoulders, and hands. It looked a lot like the armor the stallions depicted on the walls in the marble room.

"Ah, you found my armor."

Spike wasn't sure when Sigil walked in but he wasn't concerned with that at the moment.

"So, that stallion on the wall?"

"Yes that's me."

Spike paused for a moment. "How...old are you?"

"Old enough..." Spike looked at him waiting for him to go on.

"Oh you wanted a specific number? Mmm... 1495 give or take a few years." Sigil leaned against the wall of the closet.

".......you're older then Princess Celestia....." Spike said mouth a gape.

"By 156 years, yes." Sigil said with almost no enthusiasm in his voice, staring at nothing in particular. Spike just stood there not sure what to think.

“What? Immortality isn’t so uncommon anymore more.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean there’s me, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Twilight, and you.”

“Me? What did you do to me?!” Spike said in a panic.

“…Spike, you’re a dragon, you were already immortal even before I did anything.” Sigil said plainly.

The knock on the door ended the endless amount of questioning Spike was about to assault Sigil with.

“Spike, are you alright darling?” Rarity asked from the other said of the door.

“Yea, we’ll be out in a sec.” Spike said as he finished buttoning a wine colored suit vest he was wearing with dark red dress pants and shoes.

He looked at Sigil who was still looking off into space. “Aren’t you gonna put on a shirt?”

“Wasn’t planning on it. Why?” Sigil said while his eyes followed the lines on the wall.

“Uh…Common decency?”

Sigil tilted his head to look at Spike. “Your friends seemed to like it.”

Spike took a moment to recall the girl’s reactions upon see Sigil. “Stay away from them….”

Sigil scoffed and turned to face Spike. “Excuse me?”

“You heard me.” Spike said not backing down.

“Look at you, getting all defensive.” Sigil said with a rye grin.

“I'm warning you, I’m serious!” Spike said advancing on Sigil.

“And I’m sure you are, but Spike,” Sigil said putting a hand on his shoulder. "Let me give you some advice," Spike started to feel himself getting weaker, as if his very life was been drained from him. "I like you, you seem like a good guy. If you need something or want something just come talk to me, Stallion to Dragon," Spike dropped to a knee and began to turn pale. "But don't ever threaten me, understood?" Spike nodded weakly. "Good." Sigil said with a smile as he took his hand of Spike's shoulder. Spike breathed in hard as all his strength returned to his all at once.

"...Sigil?" Spike Said still panting slightly.

"Yes?" Sigil said as he helped him up.

"Can you please put a shirt on?"

Sigil chuckled slightly and nodded "Of course my friend."

Chapter Six: A new old

Spike and Sigil, wearing a white dress shirt, walked out fixing there collars and talking about nothing important really. Upon seeing the mares waiting patiently Sigil walked to them with his hand extended.

"I'd like to appo-"

"SPIKE!" The girls said in unison rushing over to Spike ignoring not only Sigil's attempted apology, but also his very existence.

Sigil stood there, hand extended to nothing, blinking.

"Oh and I forgive you for wrongly bitch slapping me with a death beam, totally didn't almost kill me or anything." He mattered to himself under his breath, turning around and putting his hands in his pockets.

"Spike are you ok? Are you hurt?" Twilight questioned almost in a panic.

"I'm fine Twi, don't worry, and plus I think you owe someone an apology." Spike said nodding his head to Sigil.

"hmpf, well I for one would have appreciated some sort of warning." Rarity said getting in Sigil's face. Who was stooping there smiling, the left side of his brain doing it just to spite her, the right side, that never stays focus, doing it because she smelled like a huge marshmallow.

"Now hold on Rare," Apple Jack said pulling her back some. "Now it was a bit cryptic, but he did give us some warning when he said Black FIRE."

"Thank you, um..."

"Apple Jack, and the one starring daggers at cha here is Rarity, you ready met Rainbow."

"Yo." Rainbow said hovering above them.

"Those 3 over there with Spike are Fluttershy, Twilight, and-" Apple Jack was interrupted by a blur of Pink grabbing Sigil and hugging him tightly around his neck choking him.

"I'm so so so happy you're not evil I mean when I saw you I was like WHOA he's cute but when you did that fire thingy I thought you killed Spikey which would mean we would have to kill you and I won't want to do that cause like I said YOU'ER HOT and-"

"PINKIE!" Everypony said at once.

"What?" Pinkie said looking at Sigil who's was purple from a mix of blushing and suffocating.

"Oh I'm so so sorry!" Said releasing her death grip on him.

Sigil dropped a knee breathing in as much air as possible. Twilight giggled at the thought of the big bad vampire was almost killed by an over excited pink party pony.

"Oh so this is funny?" Sigil said with a smirk.

"Yes, quiet funny actually." She said smiling back.

Sigil chuckled and got back to his hooves.

"So you're the one who's trying to take my job huh?" Sigil said walking over to her.

"Your job?" Twilight said feeling insulted.

"Master of magic? Yea, that's me." He said crossing his arms.

"I'm the Princess of Friendship." Twilight said with pride.

"Friendship? Seriously?" Sigil said with a laugh.

"It knocked you on your ass." Rainbow said from behind him.

Sigil turned around looking like he was about to make a valid point, but his finger dropped and he closed his mouth when he looked over at his burned hand. This made the whole group including Sigil brake out in laughter.

"Nice to see you all got acquainted." The voice of the Moon goddess said from behind them.

"LUNA!" Sigil said overjoyed.

"Hello Sigillum." She said with a hug.

"My sister has requested your presence." She said with a smile.

"Lead the way." Sigil said with a smile.

Mean while near a forest in central Solstice, a stallion sits with his back against a tree drawing in a small blue journal the white snow rabbit curiously looking at him. The snow and cold barely affected him, he was used to it. His light grey coat and black mane blended nicely with the ice and snow around him.

"Potestus." A armored stallion with the same coat color but a ice blue mane said kneeling down beside him scaring the rabbit off.

The chain mail around Potestus's neck and him clinked as he looked at his brother.

“My dvizhemsya iz , davay.” (We're moving out, come on.)  He said using Potestus's shoulder as leverage to him stand up.

Potestus got up, his Steel armor gleaming in the sun light; he picked up his shield and helmet. Putting his shield on his back and helmet on his head he and his brother walked to a hill nearby.

“Posmotrite na etogo malen'kogo brata, vsey moshch'yu Rytsar' Znakomyy , idya , chtoby vernut' ikh domoy." (Look at that little brother, the full might of the Knight Familiar, marching to retake their home.)

Potestus looked at his older brother Legatus then back to the site before them.

The two Familiar Paladins stood on that hill over look the miles and miles of snow covered plane filled with soldiers, Knights, armored beasts, catapults, siege towers, and black banners bearing a symbol of a silver wolf head, the symbol of the Familiar head pack, the symbol of the Cor-Lupus.

"A rebellion?" Sigil asked sitting up in his chair across from Celestia on the patio overlooking canterlot.

"Yes, with aid from the Familiars in the short 6 years they've already taken most of Griffin controlled Solstice." The Princess said sipping from the tea cup in her magical grip.

"They're not going to stop there, if the Knight Familiar is involved they won't stop till they have all of former Solstice." Luna interjected from the right side of the table.

"The rebirth of the Solstainen Empire." Sigil said not sure how to feel about it.

"I'm sorry what's the Knight Familiar?" Twilight asked from the left side.

Sigil looked at her as if she just insulted his mother. "They are the last remnants of the SSF."

"The what?" Twilight asked even more confused.

"The Solstainen Special Forces Twilight." Celestia said plainly.

"So?"

The sound Sigil's head made when it hit the table was enough to make Twilight jump a bit.

"So, they are the deadliest fighting force in the world." Sigil said with his head on the table.

"Anyway," Luna said trying to change the subject. "It was my understanding that all packs of the Familiar have to agree before the launch an attack of this scale."

"Yes, but if all the pack leaders served one pack," Celestia started.

"The Cor-Lupus." Sigil said bring his head off the table.

"Through conquest and traditional means they've put one of their own at the head of every Familiar pack." Celestia said taking another sip from her tea cup.

"So all the pack leaders are Cor-Lupus?" asked Luna.

"Not just Cor-Lupus, but also siblings. Legatus, Dauthi, Pax, Propheta, Classis, Desertum, Medica, and Rex Cor-Lupus have all fused there packs with the Cor-Lupus Pack lead by their mother and father, Compania and Deus Cor-Lupus." Celestia said reading the report before her.

"I thought Deus had 9 son and daughters of age." Luna said recall when she read the report.

"He does, Potestus Cor-Lupus the youngest of them all, he only 22 but he's racked up more kills them all over them combined, I met him once when I visited there strong hold about 8 years ago. He was a quite colt, very....calm, even when he was training, they would beat him, abuse him, I wanted to stop them but it wasn't my place to question the familiar training method. But he would always keep him cool; when they’d beat him down he would just get back up like nothing happened. He serves his father, but refused when his Deus offered him a pack." Celestia said taking another sip.

"Why?" Twilight asked started to get interested.

"It doesn't say"

"Not a Politician perhaps? Or maybe he's afraid of the responsibility? Or is it possible that he just has no ambition no lust for power?" A devious voice said from nowhere.

"Oh please no..." Sigil said as his pupils shrunk.

With a puff of smoke a throne-like chair appeared in the middle of the round table sitting in it was the god of chaos himself. Discord sat back in the throne with his legs crossed and grinning, his out of date suit was oddly styled, and half of it was black while the other half yellow.

"What's wrong Sigy, I thought we had so much fun the last time we met."

"You turn me into a parrot!"

"A happy parrot," Discord said with a smile.

“Who does that?!”

“I do.”

"......Why is he here?!" Sigil shouted.

"Because I can.”

Twilight could have sworn she saw Sigil’s eye twitch.

“Now don't we have more pressing matters to attend to?"

"Like?" Twilight said with as much distaste as Sigil at that moment.

"Well your majesty, like the fact that the Familiars is less than a day away from marching on the Griffin-Solstainen Capital of New Lundaya."

"What?!" Celestia said dropping her tea cup.

"Yes, the move quiet fast when there met with little resistance, well that and Postestus's Vanguard are moving across the land like a steamroller." Discord said teleporting another cup of tea to Celestia.

"So, what's the move?" Discord asked everyone.

Everypony at the table looked at one another waiting for the other to say something.

"We-we should wait, see what happens and what they do." Said Twilight after weighing the options.

"Prey waits." Sigil said with a blank expression.

Celestia put a hand up silencing Sigil.

"Twilight's right, if we aid the Griffins in any way, the Familiar will view that as an act of war and vice versa. We should wait, there's too much on the line for us to jump the gun." Celestia said setting her cup down.

Sigil sat back in his seat. "Then New Lundaya falls."

Chapter Seven: Sun Rise

The Griffin archer walked the walls surrounding New Lundaya he had about how close the Familiar was but they don't have the numbers to attack here....would they? A shadow began to cover the walls and the city.

"Wolken? aber-"

The Griffin's inner thought a stopped by an arrow going through his head, the others saw but the ones that weren't close to a door soon met the same fate along with any unfortunate soul that was outside at the time. Flame tipped arrow had part of the city burning, screams of panic was all that could be heard. Deus watched the smoke raise and gave the signal for the catapults the fired there explosive fire balls that crumbled parts of the wall. The Griffins scrambled to regroup moving their own catapults to what was left of the wall returning fire. As much as they wanted to take to the air they knew the Familiar had what they called missiles, really they were fireworks filled with shrapnel and explosive powder, but it still had devastating effects on air targets.

The two armies fired flaming balls of death back and forth for a good 5 min before the 20 siege towers moved in to take the wall. 7 were destroyed before they could reach the wall but the ones that did get through the first 10 unloaded armored starved trolls that slaughtered the Griffin defenders along the wall, the other 10 unloaded Familiar Knights that made their way into the city. Potestus stepped of the siege tower and looked around at the Griffin corpses that were ripped apart all over the wall, there wasn't an inch that covered in blood and entrails. He walked to one that was still breathing and crushed his head beneath his steel boot, then got the small fire work launcher from his belt and fired it up in the sky signaling Legatus to move to with his troops then lead his Knights farther into the city.

By med-day half the city was up in flames, war raged throughout the city the worst being where Potestus and his Vaguard were. The moved in on the palace as one force, there Shields locked together, separating briefly to the hack, slash, and/or stab any poor soul that was in there way. Potestus was at their head ordered them to break apart and take out any remaining Griffins, upon doing so a Griffin soldier attempted to blind side him. Potestus brought his shield sideways across his head get stuck halfway through his skull before ripping it out and drawing his sword and charging in.

On the other side of the city Legatus was finishing up clearing the med district of the city aided by his knights and his engraved great sword. He brought it down cut through a Griffin's Shield, arm, head, and torso. He brought it out and trusted it through the chest of another Griffin and the one behind him, he brought it out once more fast making it slam into the gut of the Griffin behind him making him bend over in pain then brought the giant blade down across his head taking it clean off.

In the port behind the palace the Griffin governor in charge of the city attempted to flee by way of boat but to his horror saw a fleet of huge iron and steel boats off the coast flying Familiar colors. Classis Cor-Lupus stood on the deck of the flag ship and smiled before ordering his fleet to open up. Cannon fire made his ears ring a bit but he enjoyed it. Cannon balls bombarded the palace port and walls, the governor fled to the temporary safety of what was left of the palace as the Familiar closed in on all sides.

Chapter eight: Night Fall

The outer and med district of New Landaya was silent, silent except for the occasional Raven calling his brethren to the feast set out for them, for covering the streets of the smoldering remains of the city and the snow covered streets painted red with blood were corpses, both Griffin and rebel but barely any Familiar, for they were surrounding the palace, Potestus, Legatus, and Classis looked at the huge building.

" Takim obrazom, to, chto khod? My sobirayemsya prosto postuchat' v dver' ? " (So, what's the move? Are we going to just knock on the front door?) Classis said rather sarcastically.

" My ne moy mal'chik ! " (Not we my boy!) A strong old voice said behind them.

Deus walked up, the battle axe on his back was frightening enough to make Legatus’s great sword look like a butter knife. He’s thick grey beard had spots of blood in it, but he ether didn’t notice or liked it. His armor was different from the others, it looked old, ancient even, yet strong, the helmet was in the shape of a wolf head and black fur decorated the neck and legs.

" My ne moy mal'chik, " (Not we my boy,) He said again. " Potestus , on imel chest' nachat' etot vozvyshat' , on dolzhen imet' chest' okonchaniya yego. " (Potestus, He had the honor of starting this upraise, he should have the honor of finishing it as well.) He firmly grabbed Potestus’s shoulders. " Otpustite zver' moy syn . " (Release the beast my son.) He said with a grin. Potestus looked up at his father and nodded the walked to the beginning on the steps. We he dropped his helmet, sword and shield the knights around him began to chant.

“zver' zver' zver'!” They chanted in the original Solstainen language.

Potestus’s breathing began to grow heavier.

“zver' zver' zver'!”

The remaining griffins watched horrified as his bone popped and cracked as they changed and grew along with the fur on his body and his nails grew into claws.

“zver' zver' zver'!”

The thing that used to be Potestus roared loudly, his armor grew to fit him. The Griffin guards praying that this wasn’t real, this beast that use to be a pony charged the doors shattering them. This wolf this monster ripped apart everything it set its eyes upon.

Classis and Legatus listened as the screams echoed throughout the palace.

“Pochemu tak dolgo dlya nego, chtoby izmenit'” (Why did it take so long for him to change?) Legatus asked with his arms crossed.

“Dramatizm?” (Dramatic effect?) Classis offered. “Vy dumayete, chto on nuzhdayetsya v pomoshchi?” (You think he needs help?)

Just then there was a scream then a gory squishing sound as a griffin honor guard was thrown from a window and splattered on the ground in front of them.

" Nakh ya dumayu, on poluchil yego ... " (Nah I think he got it…) Legatus said wiping the blood the splatter onto his armor off.

The Griffin governor sat as his desk, listening to the screams, pleas, bloody rips outside his door. He sat motionless as the beast busts the doors to his office down. He looked up and the werewolf as he changed back into a stallion. Potestus looked at the unmoving governor curiously.

He walked up to the desk and held out his hand, An international sign asking if he would like to surrender, The governor shot a cold look at Potestus before hitting his hand away.

"Holen Sie sich Ihre Tatzen weg von mir Sie Schlamm Pony Hund!"

(Get your paws away from me you mud pony dog!) The governor hissed.

Potestus smiled before lashing out, grab his beak and slammed his head against the desk.

He then began dragging the bleeding governor by his wing.

By sunrise the next morning the governor along with every Griffin in the city, dead and alive, were nailed to crosses and propped up along what was left of the port and walls and the palace was set ablaze along with any buildings still standing. “New” Lundaya was an insult to Solstice itself, an insult to the Familiar and Deus wanted the world to see what happens when you challenge the Familiar.

Legatus looked out over the water and saw a small boat way off the coast.

“Classis!” Legatus called to his brother.

" YA znayu, ya videl yego tozhe. " (I know I saw it too.) Classis said with his arms crossed.

Potestus looked out over the water and the vessel then pointed to the Equestrian flag it was flying.

"Otpustit'." (Let it go.) Deus said standing beside his sons. " Pust' dolozhit' o Celestia nashey pobedy , my budem videt' ikh v blizhaysheye vremya v lyubom sluchaye . " (Let them report back to Celestia about our victory, we’ll be seeing them soon anyways.) Deus said and began to laugh, Legatus and Classis joined in, Potestus looked back at the burning city, then over to the slowly dying governor, and then looked down.

Chapter Three: Darkness

The Goblin was speechless staring into the darkness, as pair soft Dark red eyes stared back at him. The Light of the moon shined on his bare chest stained crimson with blood so was his chin, mouth, and razor sharp teeth. A tattoo of a red pantograph covered his left shoulder and a strange symbol on the right side of his chest where his cutie mark should be. "I like that amulet..." He said with a smile as he looked at the silver skull amulet. The Goblin didn't want to make eye contact so he focused on the symbol which Sigil noticed. "It's an Omega if you're wondering." "A what?" "An Omega, it's the- bah never mind, won't matter in a few seconds anyway." Sigil extended his arm out in front of him, his horn glowed a deep black and a symbol with the same glow inside of a small circle made of smaller symbols appeared in the palm of his hand. Then as quickly as it appeared 8 black tentacles shot out from the symbol wrapping themselves around the horrified Goblin. The slimy, cold, boneless limbs tightened around the creature and brought him face the grimacing face with Sigil. "Hehe come on keep struggling, they love it!" Sigil said with an insane laugh. But his amusement gave way to the mission at hand. "Now" Sigil said clearing his throat. "I'm going to ask some questions and if you answer right you live, understood?" The Goblin stared blankly at Sigil who flexed his pointer finger making the tentacles electrocute the creature "AH!" "Now let’s try that again, do you UNDER BUCKING STAND THE WORDS I'M SAYING!?" The Goblin nodded fiercely. "Good...good. Now, where am I?" "The Griffin territory of Solstice!" He answered quickly. "What happened here?" Sigil asked in a calming tone as the tentacles loosened a bit. "I-I don't know I swear it was empty when we got here!"  After a moment of thought Sigil began to smile "Where's the loot?" The creature's eye widened and pupils shrunk. "The the, the what?" "Come on, you guys were looting and the armory is empty, I can put 2 and 2 together." The goblin opened its mouth to speak but no words keep out. "Look, tell me and I give you my word that I won't kill you." A wave of happiness washed over the goblin chief. "Outside, in front of the fort keep." "Thanks." Sigil said as the Tentacles began to tighten "Uh pony, they're uh getting a bit tight." The goblin said nervously, "eeeyup." Sigil replied plainly as they started to get tighter "what are you doing?!" The Goblin said as he started to panic "YOU SAID I WOULD LIVE!" "Yea well I lied so..." Sigil said with a shrug as the black limbs got tighter and tighter. "PLEASE! I DON'T WANNA DIE!" "Course you don't, no one does." The sounds of wet snaps, pops, and a blood curtailing screams erupted from the Goblin as his arms and legs were crushed. "PLEEEEASE I HAVE A FAMILY!" "Really? That's plea you go with? I mean honestly how many times has that been used?" Sigil watched sickly amused as the tentacles got tighter began to crush the goblin's rips, hips, and skull. "Don't you think that's a bit much Sigy." Sigil heard from beside him. "Well he did threaten to eat me. And don't call me that, it sounds weird when you say it." The last thing the goblin saw before passing out was Sigil, talking to no one. "Yes but grinding him to mulch? Isn't that a bit overkill?"

"No, making him watch his men die a slow painful death and then doing this would be overkill." Blood and brain matter oozed from the Chief's head as it was crushed; it reminded Sigil of someone crushing a banana. Sigil lifted the mangled body over his head and let the blood pour into his mouth and swallowed. "Vampires, is there any blood you won't drink?" "Yes, Fouls. My one rule, I do not kill fouls and I murder anyone who does." He said letting the blood flow into his mane and coat. He began to look more healthy now darker grey and his mane dry silver. The Tentacles loosened, dropping the pile of flesh and crush bone behind Sigil and reseeded back into the symbol on the palm of Sigil's hand. "Satisfied?"  The voice asked. Sigil took a deep breath and nodded "Yes, yes I am." Sigil picked up the sliver skull necklace from the lump of flesh and put it around his neck. "Now.....now....where do I go?" Sigil asked the voice in his head. "......Oh so now you shut up..."